03034cam a2200325 4500 526852696 TxAuBib 20211106120000.0 ||||||s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781328585219 1328585212 B07T4JBNZ9 Amazon 5dc44c44-c3aa-4630-bc00-b1ba3b3f0f46 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 4787763 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Lobrano, Alexander. My Place at the Table [Libby eBook] : A Recipe for a Delicious Life in Paris. HMH Books, 2021. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2188kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p><b>In this debut memoir, a James Beard Award–winning writer, whose childhood idea of fine dining was Howard Johnson's, tells how he became one of Paris's most influential food critics</b><br /> Until Alec Lobrano landed a job in the glamorous Paris office of <i>Women's Wear Daily</i>, his main experience of French cuisine was the occasional supermarket éclair. An interview with the owner of a renowned cheese shop for his first article nearly proves a disaster because he speaks no French. As he goes on to cover celebrities and couturiers and improves his mastery of the language, he gradually learns what it means to be truly French. He attends a cocktail party with Yves St. Laurent and has dinner with Giorgio Armani. Over a superb lunch, it's his landlady who ultimately provides him with a lasting touchstone for how to judge food: "you must understand the intentions of the cook." At the city's brasseries and bistros, he discovers real French cooking. Through a series of vivid encounters with culinary figures from Paul Bocuse to Julia Child to Ruth Reichl, Lobrano hones his palate and finds his voice. Soon the timid boy from Connecticut is at the epicenter of the Parisian dining revolution and the restaurant critic of one of the largest newspapers in the France.<br /> A mouthwatering testament to the healing power of food, <i>My Place at the Table</i> is a moving coming-of-age story of how a gay man emerges from a wounding childhood, discovers himself, and finds love. Published here for the first time is Lobrano's "little black book," an insider's guide to his 30 all-time-favorite Paris restaurants.<br /></p>. Biography & Autobiography. Cooking & Food. Nonfiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5dc44c44-c3aa-4630-bc00-b1ba3b3f0f46&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5dc44c44-c3aa-4630-bc00-b1ba3b3f0f46&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5dc44c44-c3aa-4630-bc00-b1ba3b3f0f46&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)